Tracey Emin was interviewed
for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service's Masterpiece programme presented by
Tim Marlow, art critic and director of the White Cube Gallery in
London.
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The programme can be heard at 9.05am on Tuesday 20 April. These quotes
are taken from Tracey Emin's interview...
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Future work
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"Within the next ten years I want to design swimming pools along
the River Thames called the London Ovals.
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"When planes fly to and from Heathrow and they go along the Thames,
the pilot says, 'And if you look out of your window to your left you'll
see the Emin Ovals'.
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"When people look down at night there'll be the most beautiful
aquamarine and white ovals and inside them people are swimming and having
a fantastic time and enjoying London."
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Fans
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"A group of firemen in Glasgow had a competition to get the ugliest
pin-up they could.
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"They came across a photo of me, a pretty bad one actually. Then
they found a good one of me and started a competition to get other pin-ups
of me, the more glamorous the better."
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The Bed - reactions
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"The Japanese were really shocked at my dirty slippers. Bloody
condoms - fine; shit - fine; dirty knickers - fine, but why would anyone
wear dirty slippers inside a house?
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"In New York they just said yeah yeah, '70s feminism, seen it
all before. No fuss, nothing.
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"Show it in England. Wow! What I was worried about - my mum was
going to see it and my boyfriend's mum at the time was going to see
it and what would they think of me?
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"That was more personal what I was worried about, not how the
world was going to take this bed."
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